Chemical Industry Weekly News Round-Up, June 3

2:40 PM MDT | June 3, 2011 | Vincent Valk

This Week on CW: Ashland has announced plans to buy International Specialty Products for $3.2 billion, in a deal that will make Ashland more specialty-focused. Sealed Air is planning to buy Diversey for $4.3 billion, combining a major packaging firm with a major industrial cleaning firm. Lanxess is reportedly in talks to buy Taminco, a private-equity owned producer of alkylamines. Shell and Cosan have launched a previously announced Brazilian ethanol and transportation fuel joint venture worth $12 billion. Around the Web: ...